Surviving as a Mage in a Magic Academy - Chapter 638

Chapter 638

"I treated him so well! I even played mage card games with him during breaks in case he got bored!"

'Isn't that why he ran away?'

Yonaire suspected inwardly but decided not to ask any more questions out of consideration for her relative.

"Okay, okay, be quiet now. We'll take you to the mansion."

"Can't you take my carriage too?"

Gainando pleaded as if he was the most pitiful person in the world.

All his luggage, including gifts for Yi-Han, was in the carriage.

Of course, Yonaire wasn't easily fooled. She looked at Gainando incredulously and asked,

"Who's going to drive it?"

"I can drive a carriage, but..."

Nillia spoke cautiously. Yonaire grabbed Nillia's hand as if to say there was no need for that.

"No. There's no need to bother with that."

"She can drive it! She can drive it!"

"I should add a device to prevent him from grabbing the carriage in the future..."

At Yonaire's muttering, Nillia hastily replied.

"It's not that bothersome. I can do this much."

"Driving a carriage can't be not bothersome."

Although nobles might know how to ride horses, those who could drive carriages were surprisingly rare.

There were coachmen, but above all, driving a carriage itself was quite a challenging skill.

One had to manage and align the breathing and direction of multiple horses...

"How many horses? Four might be a bit difficult, but I could somehow..."

"Eight horses."

"..."

Nillia hesitated at Gainando's answer. Yonaire sighed heavily and asked,

"Why on earth did you bring an eight-horse carriage all the way here?"

"It's cool..."

"E-eight horses is too much."

Nillia became embarrassed. To think she had to take back her words after saying she could do it.

"Of course it's too much. Don't worry about it."

"Can't I try just this once?"

"Nillia. Just shoot him."

Gainando shut his mouth with a 'hup'. Yonaire twirled her hair and said,

"There's only one way."

"Yonaire...!"

Gainando looked at his relative with expectant eyes.

As expected, she wasn't a mage for nothing.

If one couldn't solve difficulties with magic, why be a mage?

"Go to the carriage and pack only what you can fit in a bag. Don't forget the gift for Yi-Han."

"...Uh, what about the carriage?"

"We have to leave it behind, what else?"

"..."

Gainando opened his mouth, closed it, opened it again, then closed it, and went outside with slumped shoulders.

Then he quickly turned back and shouted,

"If you leave without me, I'll never forgive you next semester!"

"Alright, alright."

Nillia grumbled incredulously as she watched Gainando walk away.

"Look at how he talks. We're giving him a ride, yet he suspects we'll leave without him!"

"Right. He's become more perceptive since attending Einroguard. How did he know?"

"..."

***

Arsil Wardanaz clapped his hands in admiration as he drank the lemon tea Yi-Han had brewed for him.

Alcicle also smiled warmly at the sight of him praising his younger brother's skills.

"Brother. This candied lemon is something I bought from the town."

"..."

"..."

"There wasn't any trouble, but aren't there too few people? It seems like there are fewer people than in the mountains."

"Really? Is it to that extent?"

Yi-Han tilted his head at Nillia's words.

It didn't seem that unusual to him...

"Anything else?"

"...You're not just not sending letters to me, right...?"

Nillia looked around cautiously and whispered softly.

"Haha. Of course that's a misunderstanding. I sent one right away last time."

"R-right? I thought so."

Nillia, who had been anxious that she might have been put on the 'people not to send letters to' list because of some unnecessary words, breathed a sigh of relief.

"Who is this person?"

"Ah. This is my older brother. Arsil of the Wardanaz family. He speaks in spirit language, so it's hard to understand what he's saying."

"???"

"??!"

While Yonaire and Nillia were shocked, Yi-Han conversed with Gainando.

"What's wrong? You look like someone who's had their carriage stolen."

"It was actually stolen!!"

"What? Why? How did that happen?"

Yonaire and Nillia, who knew the truth, weren't very curious about that.

Rather, they were much more curious about how Yi-Han's brother spoke.

"Wait, what do you mean he speaks in spirit language..."

"What on earth is that..."

"Just a moment. Listen to this first."

Yi-Han calmed his friends and asked why Gainando's carriage had disappeared.

Upon hearing, it turned out the carriage hadn't disappeared. The coachman had suddenly run away.

"Did you perhaps force him to read magazines, use dark magic, pester him to buy snacks, ask him to do your homework, or ask him to play mage card games?"

"...I-I did ask him to play mage card games..."

"That must be why he ran away."

"No, is asking to play mage card games such a big crime!?"

"It becomes a crime if you keep asking. You can go find the carriage later. No one will take it."

Nillia was puzzled at Yi-Han's words.

The town in front of the territory was quite large. And the larger the scale, the more thieves there tended to be.

Even in the towns below the northern mountains, if you tied up a horse without anyone guarding it, it would disappear before long, so why would it be okay here?

"Why? Someone could take it."

"Hoho. You don't need to worry."

Arlong entered, taking off his helmet.

Thanks to Yi-Han's friends visiting, the old knight was in a very good mood.

"The people in this town don't do such things."

"Isn't... isn't it a bit much to just trust in goodwill?"

Nillia asked cautiously.

She was nervous even speaking to this knight she was meeting for the first time, especially since he seemed incredibly strong.

"It's not about trusting in goodwill. It's because of the town's rules. If a problem occurs in the town, the Wardanaz family is now supposed to send someone to resolve it, but the townspeople usually resolve things on their own before it gets to that point."

Arlong explained as he poured tea from the teapot and sipped it.

While there might not be a town in the empire without its own characteristics and personality, Udamhwa Town had an even stronger character and personality thanks to being closest to the Wardanaz family's territory.

Among the great noble families, especially those with deep history and power, it was common to have rights of trial, taxation, and public order in the surrounding territories.

The Wardanaz family was the same.

"The Wardanaz family protects their subjects with one of the lowest tax rates and safest public order in the empire. As such, the townspeople are deeply grateful. Therefore, the townspeople don't stand by and watch thieves disrupt the order!"

Yi-Han nodded at Arlong's words as if he had heard them several times before, while preparing snacks for his friends.

He had heard the story about the Wardanaz family governing the territory well and the subjects not wanting to cause trouble so many times that it was almost tiresome.

"So the townspeople want to repay as much as the Wardanaz family fulfills their duties."

"That's right. Hoho."

At Arlong's words, all the other friends present looked impressed.

Hearing it like this, it truly seemed like a territory full of beautiful virtues.

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